Grand Tours and Cook's Tours

This history of leisure travel from the mid-18th century to the start of WW1 is a record of remarkable changes -- in technology, the size of the traveling public, choices of destination, even beliefs about what was worth seeing. Includes these famous travelers: James Boswell, William & Dorothy Wordsworth, James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Florence Nightingale, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, & Emily Post. Includes lesser-known people: Amelia Edwards, who became an Egyptologist, & Ida Pfeiffer, who traveled around the world on a budget. Also the stories of the entrepreneurs -- among them Karl Baedecker, George Pullman, Cesar Ritz, & Thomas Cook.